Shift Your Shopping

Shift your Holiday shopping and commit to shopping local & independent through out November & December

The goal of the annual Shift your shopping initiative is to build a tradition through out North America by encouraging people to Shift their Holiday shopping towards shopping Local, Independent and shopping small. With the goal being to help strengthen the local economies, expands employment, nurture a sense of community, and provides a more relaxed, fun, and rewarding shopping experience.

The Grassroots campaign of Shift your Shopping currently engages more than 160 local business organizations across the U.S. and Canada.

Whilst encouraging residents to take job creation and economic concerns into their own hands by strengthening their own local economies.

The Shift your Shopping movement strives to provides a platform to highlight work done in communities across North America and provide open-source tools and resources to communities, organizations and small businesses.

It is estimated that customers spend large portions of annual shopping budget between November 1st and December 31st.

Did you know that only 6 out of every 10 consumers intend to shop locally? Choosing to buy local and independent is an effective strategy all year-round, but especially important at the holidays. Keep in mind that sometimes the holidays can make or break a small and or independently owned business.

So ask yourself this Consider the overall value your independent retailers provide you, as well as the important civic and economic benefits they offer your community when making your shopping choices. Imagine your community without these small locally and independently owned businesses.

I personally challenge everyone to join me in making it my personal goal to shift 10% of my Holiday shopping towards shopping locally by making my Holiday Purchases from locally owned operated and independent businesses within my community.

Sign the pledge below

I ______________ [Your name] of __________ [Your city] Pledge to shift ___% of my Holiday shopping to locally owned and independent businesses such as ___________ [add your favourites]

When you do decide to Shift your Shopping use Consider using one or more of the following hashtags for your social media posts throughout your local campaign: The official hashtag of the campaign: #ShiftYourShopping #ShopLocal2015

Facebook messages to use: Did you know: When you buy from local businesses like ours, up to 2-3 times more economic activity occurs in our community? We hope you’ll #ShiftYourShopping this year and choose local and independent businesses for all your holiday purchases. www.shiftyourshopping.org

Tweet this on Twitter: When you choose local & independent, everybody wins. We encourage you all to #ShiftYourShopping this holiday season! http://ow.ly/qB6MF

Shift your Shopping Social Media

official website http://shiftyourshopping.org/2013/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/shiftyourshopping/timeline
Fan made Facebook Event encouraging people to Shift your Shopping https://www.facebook.com/events/167078790303162/

Check out more of my official pledge & dedication towards shifting my 2015 Holiday Shopping and committing to shopping local, shopping small and in particular Shopping BC